A Comedy Dance Party With Kyle Mizono

Jokes, jigs and boozy squirt guns.

Comedian Kyle Mizono wants to dance with
you. And she wants to do it in the dim, clown art-filled environs of
Funhouse Lounge, with the looming threat of being drenched in booze by
comedians wielding alcohol-filled Super Soakers.

“I
want to dance with people, like in a platonic way,” Mizono says. “Like,
with some distance between us. I’d love to do that kind of dancing.”

In
other words, Saturday’s event—billed as a “comedy dance party”—won’t be
your average standup show. Co-hosted by local comedians Carson Creecy
and Dylan Reiff (who will double as DJ), it’s a go-with-the-flow, giant
question mark of an evening. Creecy says anything might happen.

“The
response to Kyle Mizono tends to be, ‘What the fuck just happened?’”
Creecy says. “That’s how this show is. Is this a dance party? Is this a
comedy show? Is it music? Is it theater? I don’t know exactly what’s
going on, but I’m having a great time doing it, and it’s making me laugh
and feel good.”

Creecy
hatched the idea during the Bridgetown Comedy Festival in May, when he
saw Mizono at an afterparty having, in his words, “a weirdo dance
battle” with a friend. She struck him as the ideal headliner for an
out-of-the-box comedy show. Here that means a DJ’d standup showcase that
incorporates music, dancing and unscripted sketches. Mizono will be
joined by several local comics, who’ve each handpicked music to
accompany their sets.

Mizono,
an L.A. comic who sprinkles her offbeat musings about everyday life
with Disney references, dinosaur imitations, songs about being a
modern-day princess, and the occasional angry shout, welcomes a show
with such a freewheeling premise. “I love to dance and I love physical
stuff,” she says. “I like the idea of not just talking to a microphone
the whole time, and adding a little bit of extra flavor.”

In
addition to a post-show dance party, the audience can also expect a
surprise mystery guest. Creecy refuses to reveal the guest’s identity,
only noting that this comedian will be armed with an alcohol-loaded
Super Soaker. (Take comfort: Only those who volunteer will be sprayed.)

“What
I’ve learned from other comedians is just to produce the show you want
to see,” Creecy says. “I’m a weird dude, so there’s a lot of weird
components to the show. But that’s what I want to see, and I’m going to
see who else is on board.”